linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/7] KVM: Kernel-based Virtual Machine

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Date:	Sun, 22 Oct 2006 19:47:21 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>
Cc:	Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@...ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Anthony Liguori <aliguori@...ibm.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] KVM: Kernel-based Virtual Machine

On Sunday 22 October 2006 19:41, Avi Kivity wrote:
> One last thing: permissions.  The /dev/kvm model allows permissions to
> be controlled using standard unix access methods.  How do you control
> access to spufs?

The mount point has permissions that you can set to allow read/write
access to users/groups. You can do that as a mount option or later
with chmod.

spu_create has an argument to specify the permissions for a new
object and follows the regular umask rules.

I also chose to allow users to set permissions on each file in order
to do cross-user IPC, but so far, nobody has used this to my knowledge.

	Arnd <><
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